La Grande Breteche - Opera

Is it early as you wish, but you'll unboat your door for me? The CBS Radio Workshop, dedicated to man's imagination, the theatre of the mine. Today, La Grande Ritesh. Avery Claflands recorded one act opera based on Balzac's classic story of a woman's infidelity, original music composed by Avery Claflin, libretto by George R. Mills.

The action takes place in the wife's bedroom of Le Grand Bratèche and a state in the Le War Valley in the early 1800s. And as the curtain rises on the first scene, the wife has hidden her lover in the closet of her bedroom as the husband enters.

The husband is in high spirits, having just returned from an evening of gaming. But the suspicion that his wife is not alone is suddenly aroused when he sees that the window draperies have been tightly drawn.

Bertrand's cloak, he's all known so many now, He is on the shore.

It's for a mason in order to have the closet walled up in which his wife's lover hides, as the lights dim on scene one of Le Grand Briteche. As the second scene opens, the closet has been walled in with bricks and mortar.

The husband pays the mason and they exit, leaving the wife in the silent room. I've been listening to the CBS radio workshop, and the premiere broadcast of Avery Claflin's recorded one-act opera based on the classic story by Ball Zach, with music composed by

Avery Claflin, libretto by George R. Mills, and produced for Radio in New York by Paul Roberts. Patricia Brinton was heard as the wife, Richard Owens as the husband. Le Grand Bratéche will be made available on long-playing records by composers recordings at your music stores shortly.